Farmdar
Pakistan
Farmdar is a startup launched in 2021 which has raised USD 1.3 million in 2022. Farmdar uses deep-tech with high- res, multi-band satellite imagery to create actionable data for farmers and corporates. This data has a direct result on the efficiency and profitability of farmers and corporates. Farmdar offers precision agriculture tools related to insights on crop classification, harvest monitoring, yield estimation, sowing classification, field digitization, climate monitoring, variety detection, NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium) variable application reporting, water stress reporting, plant health, and stress reporting across 3 services called Crop Scan, AgromAI and IQ Dashboard. Another feature called Variety Scan allows Farmdar to detect which variety of sugarcane is grown. This allows their corporate clients to identify and source their preferred variety from farmers and also conduct outreach to farmers not growing these varieties and provide them information on how they can switch their variety. Farmdar issues several thematic reports such as Plant Health Report (tells areas of good and poor plant health); Plant Stress Report (Identify which tree and crops are under stress), Water Level Report (tells areas of high, medium, low water stress), and Fertilizer Report (Identify areas of high, medium and low fertilizer requirement). The company has also expanded its operations to Brazil, Morocco and Peru.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Rural Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Precision agriculture, Fertilizer and nutrients management, AI-Big data based solutions
Value chains management
Digital extension services
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Farmdar Pvt. Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Value chain actors
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Farmdar has digitized 67,000 farmers, on behalf ot their B2B customers across sugarcane, cotton, rice and vegetable crops. Out of these 67,000 farmers, Farmdar's customers are passing on Farmdar's precision agriculture services directly ton 12,000 farmers. One of their customers is using their CropScan service for 1,000 farmers.
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Average increase of 15% income increase for sugarcane farmers
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Few locations in Pakistan
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes